Word: mohammedanism
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...must an omnipotent God be cajoled by prayer?" someone else shouted. "Prayer is the duty owed by creature to Creator," came the answer. The priests had to stand up and answer atheistic, Mohammedan, Presbyterian, and Jehovah's Witness heckling...
...order to make reasonably sure that archeologists of 6939 would know of the treasure consigned to them, Westinghouse sent books of record to world's leading libraries, telling how to calculate the date when the capsule should be opened, by use of the Gregorian, Chinese, Jewish, Mohammedan and Shinto calendars, and by astronomical time if no calendars survive...
...Jerusalem meanwhile, the Aga Khan's energetic son Aly Khan broadcast an appeal to all Mohammedans: "Help Britain with all your energy. Religious freedom has received what appears to be a death sentence in those countries which have fallen under totalitarian regimes, whereas it exists untrammeled in all Mohammedan countries where there is British influence...
...Mary Lamb became a devout Mohammedan. Even then her nerves were high-strung: she was much upset when her Grandmother Field remained an Unbeliever. But Mary soon found a new interest: from the names on gravestones she began teaching her younger brother, Charles, the future author of the Essays of Elia, his letters...
Government. Too sickly to attend school, he was tutored in Turkish and in military strategy by a disinherited German nobleman-cowboy; a Turkish scholar taught him Asiatic lore. Thus primed, in 1935 Hathaway went to Bombay, thence to Tibet and Turkestan, where he fought with a bloodthirsty Mohammedan chieftain against the Bolsheviks. Captured, he spent 116 days in solitary confinement in a Soviet prison, made his lucky exit via the Gobi desert to Shanghai. Whatever the facts of his curious adventures, Author "Ramal" is a vivid writer, nearly rivals the fantastic imaginings of Frederic Prokosch's The Asiatics...